How to Install and Uninstall usbutils Package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Last updated: April 28,2024

You can also install and uninstall the usbutils on the following distributions in the same way, as they are all based on the Debian system

MX Linux 23
SparkyLinux

1. Install "usbutils" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to install usbutils on Debian 12 (Bookworm)


    
        
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                sudo apt update
            
                    
    
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                sudo apt install
            
                        
                usbutils
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "usbutils" package

Please follow the step by step instructions below to uninstall usbutils on Debian 12 (Bookworm):


    
        
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                sudo apt remove
            
                        
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                sudo apt autoclean && sudo apt autoremove
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the usbutils package on Debian 12 (Bookworm)

Package: usbutils
Version: 1:014-1+deb12u1
Installed-Size: 320
Maintainer: Aurelien Jarno
Architecture: amd64
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.34), libudev1 (>= 196), libusb-1.0-0 (>= 2:1.0.22)
Breaks: hwdata (<< 0.334-1~), isenkram (<< 0.45~), kinfocenter (<< 4:5.14.5-2~), libosinfo-1.0-0 (<< 1.8.0-1~), usbip (<< 2.0+5.10.4-1~)
Description: Linux USB utilities
Description-md5: 928f8c65aee445506dc03a844a66adac
Multi-Arch: foreign
Homepage: https://github.com/gregkh/usbutils
Tag: hardware::usb, implemented-in::c, interface::commandline, role::program,
scope::utility, use::monitor, use::viewing
Section: utils
Priority: optional
Filename: pool/main/u/usbutils/usbutils_014-1+deb12u1_amd64.deb
Size: 73488
MD5sum: 59da4e3bb2be6bf5a89e9360571ef755
SHA256: 1b60c6922fe5f121ac22b7ae164552746896604614d5822ff5b3c76260feebf9